Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/07/28/13:51:25
Michael Eager wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 05:09:16PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote:
>>> In fact, I'm wondering if there is an advantage to building GNU make
>>> using the Cygwin environment, vs. using a native MingW (for example)
>>> build of GNU make? I'm afraid I'm woefully ignorant about the details.
>>
>> There is no advantage using cygwin if you want to use a Makefile which
>> contains MS-DOS paths. Using MinGW makes perfect sense in that case.
>> Despite having suggested this repeatedly, it seems some users are still
>> not clear on this concept.
>
> When I ran into this problem, it was because there was a
> WINDOWS environment symbol referenced in a dependency.
> It's not practical to change the environment symbol -- it is
> used by both makefiles and native windows programs. Nor is it
> practical to re-write the paths in the makefile -- because the
> makefile needs to reference this (and other) shared environment symbols,
> which are not fixed in the makefile.
>
> There are two equally unpleasant resolutions recommended:
> either install two products (Cygwin and MinGW) or retain
> a back-level version of make, forgoing all future bug fixes.
> Neither are very good, but I've opted for the second choice.
You're forgetting the third, correct choice: use cygpath to translate
the offending environment variable (if you like, store a copy of the
translated variable in make's environment).
--
Matthew
Warning: prolonged exposure to Cygwin may cause addiction.
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